Description: Never before has it been possible to interpret the bible in such a range of different ways. Are we to take the scriptures as the literal truth, or as human stories coming from a particular context? As imaginative literature that has only a symbolic meaning, or as liberation texts for women, black people, the poor? Do they say many, possibly conflicting things, or do they give us a single overriding truth? How is one part of the scriptures to be connected with another? An Introduction to Biblical Studies provides a clear and helpful approach to such study, which points to the value of the differing approaches on offer, while helping the student towards and understanding of the essential unity of the scriptures. Tried and tested among Steve Moyise's own (highly critical) theological students, the book will also be an invaluable resource for a lay reader's course, for somebody running a parish biblical studies group, or for anyone - Christian otherwise - who has ever wondered what on earth is going on in the field of biblical studies today.

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